On Wednesday-201407-30, 11:45, demerphq wrote: > However, when I think that the only reliable way to find out the type of > a reference, or that an object is blessed is loading a CPAN module I > think that it misses a key point. Ditto for simple utilities like "sum", > and "max" and whatnot. > > My personal feeling is that there are things that are more or less > "application" level that should not be part of Perl core, and there are > things on CPAN which should have been part of the language from the > beginning. Agreed. Common utility type of functionality (like sum) shouldn't require CPAN trip.Thread Previous | Thread Next